Date | City | State | Employer | Body Part | Event |
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2019-09-17 | La Vista | Nebraska | CrossCountry Courier Inc | Finger(s), fingernail(s) | Compressed or pinched by shifting objects or equipment |
An employee was attempting to lower a dock plate. He lifted the dock plate up, then placed his fingers between the dock plates in order to fold the plates out so he could lay them flat. In doing so, his right hand fingers were pinched between the dock plates. His fourth finger needed stitches and his third finger was cut to the bone. One of his fingers required partial surgical amputation. | |||||
2019-08-29 | Bella Vista | Arkansas | American Automobile Association | Multiple body parts | Other fall to lower level 6 to 10 feet |
An employee conducted a claims adjustment inspection on the roof of a 10-foot shed and was attempting to descend a ladder from the roof when the employee slipped off the ladder and fell 10 feet to the ground. The employee was hospitalized with a broken shoulder, three broken ribs, punctured lungs, a pulmonary embolism, and cracked thoracic vertebrae. | |||||
2018-07-15 | Chula Vista | California | U.S. Customs and Border Protection | Forearm(s) | Jack-knifed or overturned, nonroadway |
On July 15, 2018, an employee was patrolling on an all-terrain vehicle and rolled it, suffering a broken right forearm. | |||||
2017-07-28 | La Vista | Nebraska | Rentokil Initial plc | BODY SYSTEMS | Inhalation of harmful substance-single episode |
An employee was handling plants in the warehouse and inhaled some pollen from an Aglaonema plant causing an allergic reaction that required hospitalization. | |||||
2017-05-01 | La Vista | Nebraska | American Residential Services, LLC | Finger(s), fingernail(s) | Caught in running equipment or machinery, n.e.c. |
An employee was servicing an A/C unit with a clamp-on amp meter. He removed the cover to test the A/C when his left middle fingertip was caught and amputated (no bone loss) between a belt and pulley. | |||||
2016-04-20 | Bella Vista | Arkansas | PACE CONSTRUCTION COMPANY | Leg(s) | Caught in running equipment or machinery during regular operation |
An employee was preparing to pour bridge deck when his pants and subsequently right leg were caught and pulled into the deck finishing machine. He was hospitalized with a fractured right leg. | |||||
2015-05-22 | La Vista | Nebraska | JC Ehrlich, Inc | Multiple body parts | Other fall to lower level 11 to 15 feet |
An employee working from a ladder to put up bird netting fell 15 feet to the ground below and broke a wrist and cracked the pelvis. The employee was hospitalized overnight and had surgery on the wrist the following day. |